By Louis Pelosi |
Basic SDCC email parameters may be enough to configure most email clients, including smartphones and other mobile devices.
The DOE has mandated that all non-MFA-protected IMAP servers at DOE facilities be blocked from the Internet on April 15, 2020. See the link below for more details.
https://www.phy.bnl.gov/computing/index.php/RCF_Email_MFA
The below instructions will only work from BNL campus networks.
To configure your email client to connect to the SDCC mail server and authenticate with your account credentials:
- In your client preferences or settings, create an account with the following attributes:
- Incoming server (IMAP):
- Username/password: Your SDCC computing account user name and password
- IMAP server: rcf.rhic.bnl.gov
- Port: 993
- Security type: SSL (or SSL/TLS)
- IMAP path prefix: None (leave blank).
- Outgoing server (SMTP):
- SMTP server: rcf.rhic.bnl.gov
- Port: 465
Note: some users report that port 587 works instead for their clients. - Security type: SSL (or SSL/TLS)
Note: some users report that STARTTLS works instead for their clients - Require authentication (or sign-in): Yes (enable)
- Username/password: Your RCF computing account user name and password
- Incoming server (IMAP):
- Save your account settings. The remainder of your settings are orthogonal to your account connection, possibly client-specific, and should not affect your ability to connect to the SDCC mail server.
For instructions tailored to specific clients and operating systems, see:
- Apple Mail
- For Mac users experiencing problems authenticating with IMAP, please see the troubleshooting section of our Mac-specific mail documentation.
- Evolution/Linux
- Pine/Linux
- Thunderbird/Linux
- Thunderbird/Windows